THE DRAMATIC HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN BUFFALO--BY Michael PUNKE, THE AUTHOR OF THE REVENANT, NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIOMichael Punke\'s The Last Stand tells the epic story of the American West through the lens of the American bison and the man who saved these icons of the Western landscape.
Over the Last three decades of the nineteenth century, an American Buffalo herd once numbering 30 million animals was reduced to twelve.
In the first national.
Into that maelstrom rode young George Bird Grinnell, a scientist, journalist, hunter and conservationist.
Army aided those who hunted buffalo, considering its eradication to be essential to victory in the Army\'s ongoing war on American Indians.
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It was an age that treated the West as nothing more than a treasure chest of natural resources to be dug up or shot down.
In the Last three decades of the nineteenth century, an American Buffalo herd once numbering 30 million animals was reduced to twelve.
It is also the definitive history of the American buffalo, written by a master storyteller of the West.
Last Stand is the story of the death of the old West and the Birth of the new as well as an examination of how the West was really won--through the Birth of the conservation movement.
A strikingly contemporary story, the saga of Grinnell and the Buffalo was the first national Battle over the environment.
Fighting in the pages of magazines, in Washington\'s halls of power, and in the frozen valleys of Yellowstone, Grinnell and his allies sought to preserve an icon from the grinding appetite of Robber Baron America.
Grinnell shared his adventures with some of the greatest and most infamous characters of the American West--from John James Audubon and Buffalo Bill to George Armstrong Custer and Theodore Roosevelt (Grinnell\'s friend and ally).
A scientist and a journalist, a hunter and a conservationist, Grinnell would lead the Battle to Save the Buffalo from extinction.
Army, which considered the eradication of the Buffalo essential to victory in its ongoing war on Native Americans.
Into that maelstrom rode young George Bird Grinnell.
Supporting these hide hunters, even buying their ammunition, was the U.
S.
The Buffalo in this world was a commodity, hounded by legions of swashbucklers and unemployed veterans seeking to make their fortunes.
It was the era of Manifest Destiny, a Gilded Age that treated the West as nothing more than a treasure chest of resources to be dug up or shot down.
THE DRAMATIC HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN BUFFALO--BY Michael PUNKE, THE AUTHOR OF THE REVENANT, NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIOMichael Punke\'s The Last Stand tells the epic story of the American West through the lens of the American bison and the man who saved these icons of the Western landscape.
Over the Last three decades of the nineteenth century, an American Buffalo herd once numbering 30 million animals was reduced to twelve
